My Review: Great Review

I highly recommend e‘s review of Dave Bidini’s Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places.

It seems kind of silly to review a review – how many layers of abstraction can people tolerate, after all – so suffice to say that e managed to put her virtual finger, very eloquently, on an interesting feature of Dave Bidini’s writing. The type of thing she’s talking about in her review – a fundamental ambivalence about the subject material that lies at root of Bidini’s relation to his subject – is exactly the notion that I had wanted to explore in a review of Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs – but which (on account of my laziness and lack of facility with the English language) I have yet to produce.